Summary: A bewitching fairy tale about a young girl's coming of age. Valerie discovers the world is not what it seems after she gets a pair of magical earrings. Her quaint little village is actually a haven for blood-sucking vampires. Her grandmother is really an evil old crone. The local farmers are lechers, and the town's priest harbors strange desires.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VALHoráček, Petr.
Summary: A little girl sees a beautiful butterfly in the garden one day and while searching for the butterfly the next day she is amazed by all of the other colors in the garden.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: STO HorBeckmann, Petr.
Contents: Dawn -- Belt -- Early Greeks -- Euclid -- Roman pest -- Archimedes of Syracuse -- Dusk -- Night -- Awakening -- Digit hunters -- Last Archimedeans -- Prelude to breakthrough -- Newton -- Euler -- Monte Carlo method -- Transcendence of [pi] -- Modern circle squarers -- Computer age -- Chronological table.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 512.709 BECHoráček, Petr.
Summary: When Mouse discovers that the big juicy apple she finds is too big to fit into her tiny home, she sets out to find a larger house.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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Summary: "The tiger is the most fearless animal in the jungle, but when hunters take him to a cage in the city he discovers there is something much more valuable than strength or power"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: Suzy Goose tries again and again to get a star for the Christmas tree.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOROpeth
Contents: Coil -- Heir apparent -- Lotus eater -- Burden -- Porcelain heart -- Hessian peel -- Hex omega
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OPEHoracek, Petr.
Summary: A family drives their noisy car to Grandma's house.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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Summary: Rejected by his fellow penguins because of his unusual color, minimal diving, and jumping skills, Blue Penguin begins to sing in his loneliness and wonders if he will be able to convince the others that he is one of them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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Summary: A young child gets ready for bed by finishing playtime, eating supper, taking a bath, brushing teeth, and listening to a story before snuggling down for sleep.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE HORHoráček, Petr
Summary: Assured by his animal friends that their meadow is the best place in the world, Hare embarks on a journey to see other places. He visits beautiful green fields, gushing rivers, and starlit deserts before missing his friends back home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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Summary: Goat is tired of eating grass. What will she eat next?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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Summary: Encourages readers to say good night to several animals before settling down for a sleep of their own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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Summary: "These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency. In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics and culture that will in no way unsettle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 PETPetry, Ann
Summary: "The Street follows Lutie Johnson, a young, newly single mother, as she struggles to make a better life for her son, Bub. An intimate account of the aspirations and challenges of black, female, working-class life, much of it set on a single block in Harlem, the novel exposes structural inequalities in American society while telling a complex human story, as overpriced housing, lack of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETPeto, Violet
Summary: Simple text and colorful illustrations teach young readers to count from one to ten, inviting them to count the eggs of ten animals, guess their species, and lift interactive flaps to see what their hatched babies look like.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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Contents: Delir 1 -- Delir 2 -- Delir 3 -- Delir 4 -- Delir 5 -- Delir 6 -- Delir 7 -- Lumiere -- Pan'la Glezne.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mule Musiq 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC INSPett, Mark
Summary: A poop-loving dung beetle learns not to hide the quirks that make him special.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PETPett, Mark
Summary: When a lizard hatches from the egg Leonard finds in the park, he names it Buster and takes it all around the city, but Buster grows bigger and bigger until Leonard realizes he must devise a way to return his pet to the deepest, darkest part of the park and set him free.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC PETSummary: Living among the ordinary citizens of the infamous New Mexico city of Roswell are four teenagers who are not there by choice. Max, Isabel, Michael, and Tess are humans with extraordinary gifts. They are human/alien hybrids, sent here as replacements for the royalty of an alien race. This year the show will be built around around the relationships between human and aliens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROSPress, Petra.
Summary: Discusses the culture, religion, survival and daily life of the Mayan people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.81016 PREPetri, Alexandra
Summary: "As a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn't learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat history one more time, we're going to fail! Maybe it's time for a new textbook. Alexandra Petri's US History contains a lost (invented!) history of America. (A history for people disappointed that the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.02 PETPetri, Alexandra
Summary: "Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri turns her satirical eye on her own life in this hilarious new memoir... Most twentysomethings spend a lot of time avoiding awkwardness. Not Alexandra Petri. Afraid of rejection? Alexandra Petri has auditioned for America's Next Top Model. Afraid of looking like an idiot? Alexandra Petri lost Jeopardy! by answering "Who is that dude?" on national TV....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015
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Summary: Beatrice is so well-known for never making a mistake that she is greeted each morning by fans and reporters, but a near-error on the day of the school talent show could change everything.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2011